On the 17th, the first regiment of the guard division successfully broke through the defense line deployed by the Beiyang Army in Huangzhuang after paying more than 200 casualties, and successfully surrounded the enemy army of more than 600 people.

The 2nd Battalion of the Guard Division suffered relatively large losses in this campaign, especially the 3rd Company, which had been serving as the vanguard, lost more than half of it, and there were only more than 50 people left in the whole company, and the company commander Du Yanpeng was seriously wounded by a bullet in the abdomen, three lieutenants were killed, and more than half of the backbone senior noncommissioned officers in the company were killed or wounded. Company Commander Captain Du Yanpeng was injured and was rushed to a ship of the Nationalist Navy after initial treatment in a field hospital and transported back to Shanghai for further treatment.

After the first regiment of the guard division broke through Huangzhuang, it did not stop at all, but followed the Beiyang Army all the way to Taishan Town, plus the second regiment of the guard division that had broken through Dengjiaao the night before yesterday, the guard division of the national army had formed a two-sided attack on Taishan Town.

Although the casualties of the guard division were relatively large in the battle on the southern front, the progress was smooth, and in comparison, the Jiejiazhuang on the northern front was much slower.

"Damn, what are you Wang Tingfeng doing to eat, did you grow up eating shit, and a whole battalion can't take down the position guarded by 300 people! This is dereliction of duty, I am going to take you to court-martial! Lin Yongfei was furious in the headquarters of the Third Regiment, and there was a large group of middle-level officers sitting at the rectangular table, and one of them, a stout man, Major, who was standing, blushed.

Although his face was flushed, he honestly lowered his head and didn't dare to refute half a sentence. Like all regular armies, the ranks in the national army are very high, not to mention that the commander points at your nose and scolds, even if you are beaten in the mouth, you can only hold on, and you can't refute half a sentence.

Lin Yongfei continued to scold: "And your mortar battalion, no matter how you do it, you can't do a simple artillery support, is it all shit learned in the Fuzhou Military Academy!" ”

Lin Yongfei dropped his hat on the table, unbuttoned the collar of his jacket and waited to pick up the tea on the table and take a sip of it, but the tea was too hot, so angry that he directly threw the cup on the ground: "Adjutant, how to make tea!" ”

The adjutant on one side naturally didn't dare to say that this was not the tea he made, and now Lin Yongfei was angry, and whoever provoked him would have to be unlucky, so he could only carefully step aside, pour a cup himself, and try that the temperature was not hot before breaking it again.

Now Lin Yongfei is very angry, he Lin Yongfei and the third regiment have been very unlucky since they launched an attack on Jiejiazhuang, not only did they complete the battle plan according to the predetermined plan, but also suffered a lot of damage, Lin Chengkun has given three orders in a row, ordering him to take Jiejiazhuang as soon as possible, not even threatening to tell Chen Jingyun or anything like that, but directly saying that if he can't take Jiejiazhuang before tomorrow, then he will come over to command it in person, as for you Lin Yongfei, stay there and stay there.

Lin Yongfei also knew why Lin Chengkun was in such a hurry to ask him to take Jiejiazhuang, the reason was that the Military Intelligence Department had received accurate information that Shandong's Beiyang Seventh Division had already begun to set off for the south, and the vanguard had even arrived in Chuzhou. The Seventh Division of the Beiyang Army took a train directly from Shandong to the south, and this ability to maneuver quickly was very fast, and it did not stop at all along the way to Chuzhou.

In this case, it is not difficult to understand why the guard division is so anxious to take Nanjing, if the victory of Nanjing is not established before the large-scale reinforcement of Nanjing by the seventh division, then the guard division will be dangerous. After many hard battles, the loss of soldiers of the guard division is not small, and because it is extremely difficult to supply across the river, this combat effectiveness is far from the peak state, if it is attacked by the seventh division of the Beiyang Army in a state of stalemate, then it will be flanked from the front and rear, and the situation will become extremely dangerous.

Once the guard division is defeated in Nanjing, then it will declare the complete failure of the Nationalist army's plan in Shen Gang, and whether the guard division can safely return at that time is a question, and whether it can hold on to southern Jiangsu is even more problematic.

Therefore, Lin Chengkun had already received a strict order from the headquarters, asking him to take Nanjing as soon as possible and prepare for the counterattack of the Seventh Division of the Beiyang Army.

Now there are two key points in the Nanjing war, one is Taishan Town, and now Taishan Town has gathered most of the remnants of the Beiyang Army in the north city of Nanjing, with a total of about 3,000 people, and it is Feng Guozhang personally commanded in Taishan Town. The other is Jiejiazhuang, which was not so important before, because the most important thing in this place is to pass through the Jinpu Line, that is, the only way for the Jinpu Line to enter Nanjing. If you take here, you can not only block the northward escape of the defenders of Taishan Town, but also block the southward path of the Beiyang Army in the future.

Previously, many senior officers in the guard division, including Lin Chengkun and Lin Yongfei, all decided that it should not be a problem to take down a Xie Jiazhuang with only 100 people defended by the strength of the third regiment of the guard division, but they didn't expect that the battle had started for many days, and this Xie Jiazhuang still failed to take it.

How does this not make Lin Chengkun angry, and how does it not make Lin Yongfei depressed and angry.

After scolding him, and drinking a few sips of the mild tea that was newly delivered, Lin Yongfei's anger was suppressed, and after sitting down again, he looked around at the officers present, and said after being silent for a long time: "The division seat has given me a deadline, if I can't take it before twelve o'clock tomorrow morning, he will bring someone to command it in person, and I will be sad at that time, but you don't have to think about how good it is." Even if you won't be removed for the time being, but with such a stroke in your resume in the future, you don't want to continue to be promoted! ”

At this time, Wang Tingfeng, who had just been scolded by Lin Yongfei and hated the most, fought: "Tuanzuo, I will take the three battalions to attack at night tonight, I can make a military order, and I must take down the enemy's thirteenth position!" ”

Lin Yongfei's eyes swept over: "Since you said so, then I ask you, but you are really sure!" ”

Wang Tingfeng held his head high: "My third battalion is currently the most complete, as long as the regiment headquarters strengthens a machine gun company for me, I guarantee that I can take it down!" ”

Lin Yongfei looked away from him, and then looked at the other officers, only to see that none of the other officers dared to speak, and immediately gritted his teeth and said: "I'll give you all the mortar battalions, and then the machine gun company of the first battalion will also drop to you!" ”

As he spoke, he stood up again, stared at Wang Tingfeng and said word by word: "If you can't take it down, you can also go into battle with those dead brothers to charge!" ”

Wang Tingfeng showed perseverance: "Don't worry, if you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent!" ”

In the evening, the artillery of the two companies that temporarily supported the 3rd Regiment of the Guard Division began to fire first to provide artillery support before the charge.

Approaching nightfall, Wang Tingfeng's three battalions had quietly left the bunker, and then slowly approached the position of the Beiyang Army, and soon the artillery fire in the rear began to extend and fire, and the mortars supported by the rear also fired rapidly according to the predetermined Zhuyuan, and after the continuous explosions, the soldiers of the National Army bent down and rushed out quickly.

Soon the clatter of machine guns and the crackling of rifles were intertwined, accompanied by various blast injuries, and the soldiers of the Nationalist Army soon fought fiercely with the Beiyang Army.

Wang Tingfeng, the front-line commander, calmly observed the development of the battle, and updated the combat instructions at any time: "Let the mortar battalion carry out three rapid fire in the No. 7 area!" ”

"Order the third company, the second platoon, and the fourth company to reinforce the fourth company!"

"Order the first battalion of machine guns to transfer two mortars to support the second company!"

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The battle became more and more intense, and the Nationalist Army took advantage of its strength to adopt the tactics of crowds, while the Beiyang Army on the opposite side, although it did not have many troops, stubbornly resisted with a few honest Gatling machine guns.

As a mortar shell landed on a machine gun position of the Beiyang Army, the machine gun of the Beiyang Army instantly stopped firing, Wang Tingfeng saw this at a glance, and immediately ordered decisively: "All reserves are to attack Area No. 7!" ”

The Beiyang Army has been holding on to Jiejiazhuang for a long time, and it can be said that in addition to understanding the terrain advantages of Jiazhuang for so long, a very important reason is that there are a lot of old Gatling machine guns, although these machine guns are old, but the firepower they exert has made the national army suffer enough, and was once blocked for several days.

However, as the war continued, the defenders of the Beiyang Army who were in a semi-encircled state could not be replenished at all, and those old Gatling machine guns were in disrepair for a long time, and they frequently failed under this high-intensity use, and they used a lot of damage without the national army to fight, and the bullets used in this batch of Gatling machine guns were also old stock bullets, which were not very many.

The Gatling machine gun slowly became useless, and in the bitter battle, not only in the loss of the 3rd Regiment of the Nationalist Guard Division, but also the Beiyang Army, which was at a disadvantage in strength, was no better, and at least more than 200 casualties were killed and wounded in the past few days.

However, tonight, when Wang Tingfeng himself personally led the reserves forward to charge, the defenders of the Beiyang Army, who had been struggling for several days, finally collapsed.

In the fierce battle, it is very common for the anthill to collapse, and when a small point is broken through by the national army, the defenders of the Beiyang Army on the front line all day soon collapse one after another.

In the second half of the night, the 3rd Regiment of the Guard Division launched a full-scale offensive to further expand the results of the battle, and in the early morning, the 3rd Regiment had captured most of the defense line of the Beiyang defenders, and Xie Jiazhuang was about to be lost.

At this time, when the generals of the Beiyang defenders saw that they were irretrievable, they led the remnants of the army to withdraw from Jiejiazhuang, and then suffered heavy losses in the pursuit of the third regiment of the guard division, and finally only more than 100 people were left to flee in the direction of Chuzhou.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Lin Yongfei sent a telegram to the division headquarters: "Fortunately, I have overcome my life!" ”